Minor earthquake: M3.32 quake has struck near Quinton in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Quinton in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.34165955 West, latitude 35.10835648 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 11:50:45 / 11:50 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ok2019snwq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019snwq. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 17:50:45 / September 21, 2019 @ 5:50 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Muskogee (c. 39 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sallisaw (c. 8 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Poteau (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Okmulgee, Muskogee, Henryetta (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.34165955° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.10835648° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km ESE of Quinton, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-21 17:50:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-21 17:54:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	170	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ok	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.960919857	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8664929052 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	273.5591888	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ok2019snwq	Id of event.
Event Code	2019snwq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019snwq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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